Microsoft Bing Rebates is pushing annoying pop-up ads, and ad blockers don t help
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Microsoft’s strategy of using pop-up advertising to promote new features and services has returned and ad blockers can do nothing against it.
I saw two examples of this on Monday morning using Microsoft Edge and Bing. One I found acceptable, but a second went way over the line. That latter Bing ad promoted Microsoft’s new Bing Rebates program. It seized a good third of a Chrome window yes, with ad-blocking software installed and active and then retreated, lurking at the bottom of my window until I clicked it.
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Microsoft’s strategy of using pop-up advertising to promote new features and services has returned and ad blockers can do nothing against it.
I saw two examples of this on Monday morning using Microsoft Edge and Bing. One I found acceptable, but a second went way over the line. That latter Bing ad promoted Microsoft’s new Bing Rebates program. It seized a good third of a Chrome window yes, with ad-blocking software installed and active and then retreated, lurking at the bottom of my window until I clicked it.
What’s acceptable: Promoting a new Edge feature
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